Totally fair, I agree it is definitely not a good first distro. I think everyone should follow the manual setup process the first time and not use archinstall, because it’s the tutorial which teaches you what’s on your system and how it works.
Totally fair, I agree it is definitely not a good first distro. I think everyone should follow the manual setup process the first time and not use archinstall, because it’s the tutorial which teaches you what’s on your system and how it works.
I’m also not new to the Linux scene, I also run a variety of distros on a variety of machines including servers and I also write software professionally. Arch is fucking great.
I didn’t say it was stable, I specifically said it was unstable. Because it is. I said arch is reliable, which is a completely different thing.
Debian is stable because breaking changes are rare. Arch is unstable because breaking changes are common. In my personal experience, arch has been very reliable, because said breaking changes are manageable and unnecessary complexity is low.
I could not disagree more. Arch is unstable in the meaning that it pushes breaking changes all the time, (as opposed to something like Ubuntu where you get hit with them all at once), but that’s a very different thing from reliability.
There are no backported patches, no major version upgrades for the whole system, and you get package updates as soon as they are released. Arch packages are minimally modified from upstream, which also generally minimizes problems.
The result has been in my experience outstandingly reliable over many years. The few problems I do encounter are almost always my own fault, and always easily recovered from by rolling back a snapshot.
Self hosting is pretty great right now. Immich, Tailscale, truenas, docker, vaultwarden - you can solve so many of your own problems with any old computer you have lying around
It’s not conventional wisdom, but I’m happiest with arch.
Tempted by nixos but I CBA to learn it.
Antennapod and newpipe are the biggest apps I’ve missed since moving to iOS
As others have mentioned, find a decent beginner program and follow it. Other advice:
Bryan „trans people choosing pronouns is like the Picard 4 lights torture scene” Lunduke
Sounds like your use case is significantly more complicated than mine, I usually just commit, push, and pull.
Yadm does have the “enter” command which lets other tools work. I have an alias I use all the time:
alias lazyadm="yadm enter lazygit --work-tree ~/"
There are other dotfile managers out there, personally I use yadm. It’s just a shell wrapper around a bare git repository, no symlinks or other magic needed
I’d also like some guidance on this problem (other than “use emacs”), but searching for “ -x” will have a lower false positive rate
second time doesn’t take two days, but yeah you’re right.
Those two days aren’t really spent configuring, they’re spent learning.
Ubuntu is dead
Kinda showed your ass with this one
This post not written by someone who has ever run ‚systemctl -p3 —since today’
Started learning web development.